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"My name is Cosin, and I live at the old house facing the church close by where we are. So we are fellow-parishioners, habitants de la meme commune, as you would say in France, I think." Again a polite bow. "But will you excuse me for asking how you know me?" "Oh, I have heard of you from my friend, Major Kelly.
Now don't you forget," he added with a severe look the girl had never seen before in the merry fellow's face; "nobody whatever is to come in while we are talking." In the evening of the same day, as it began to get dark, Tournier, who had been spending the day with Cosin, was on the point of getting up to return to the barracks, when the landlord of the "Wheat Sheaf" was announced.
No little share had Alice Cosin in bringing this about, though in that unobtrusive, and often unknown, way in which dear, kind women work, for she was one of those who had the mark of the true lady in her household duties. She knew everything, and saw to everything, and did anything that would make the household comfortable.
Tournier felt he had betrayed himself, and was vexed. As to Cosin, he opened his eyes with amazement at the other's vehemence of manner. Then a bright smile of surprise lighted up his face, and he said, "Why on earth then do you not ask her to be your wife?" "My dear fellow," replied Tournier, in his turn amazed, "you surely know why.
They giue themselues to eating and drinking, and be for the most part burly men of bodie, insomuch that espying any one of them whom we had not seene before, we might knowe him to be the King his cosin. They be neuerthelesse very pleasant, courteous, and faire conditioned: neither did we find, all the time wee were in that citie, so much honour and good intertainement any where as at their hands.
"Oh, certainly: full an hour before." "Don't let anyone know about it. It will be better for you not to mention it. It might spoil your custom." Thus cautioned, the worthy landlord went away. "Can you lend me a horse, Cosin?" "Yes, and go with you myself."
At length he changed back to his eager manner again. "And now, Miss Cosin, comes the question: I want you, of your great kindness, to answer, and to lead up to which I have given you so much trouble. Pardon, pardon an unhappy man. Tell me, what is the secret of your brother's power to bear his trouble, and even triumph over it. I want, myself, to learn it."
Each of the others read the letter so far as was needful, but, like gentlemen, no further. And Cosin understood it all better than the others could. Full directions were given by the doctor as to treatment, and his last words were, "You must never leave him for a minute night nor day; and if he wake if he wake let nothing on any account excite him."
Given at our Court at Oxford, under our signett and Royall signature the twelfe day of Marche in the twentieth year of our Raigne 1644. To our Right Trusty and right welbeloved Cosin, Edward Earle of Glamorgan."
No doubt the doctor was right in theory, but medical directions are sometimes more easy to give than to carry out. The doctor then drove away with Major Kelly, having first ascertained that Alice Cosin had sent for the best nurse in the village, who, wonderful to say, was a very good one. Soon after they had left, Villemet came hurrying to the house, having obtained leave from the major.
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